All step-up synonyms

noun step-up

• heightening — Present participle of heighten.
• waxing — Also called beeswax. a solid, yellowish, nonglycerine substance allied to fats and oils, secreted by bees, plastic when warm and melting at about 145°F, variously employed in making candles, models, casts, ointments, etc., and used by bees in constructing their honeycomb.
• leg up — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.
• intensification — to make intense or more intense.
• doubling — anything that is twofold in size or amount or twice the usual size, quantity, strength, etc.
• move up — to pass from one place or position to another.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• improvement — an act of improving or the state of being improved.
• hold-up — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• intensifying — Present participle of intensify.
• maximization — to increase to the greatest possible amount or degree: to look for ways of maximizing profit.
• optimization — The design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense.
• maximisation — Alternative spelling of maximization.